[G4] snow leopard

[James Asherman]

On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Better performance would have nothing whatever to do with
> removing PPC code. Whatever performance increase there is
> would be due to 64-bit applications plus Snow Leopard's new
> features like Grand Central and OpenCL.
>
> Apple could easily have provided a PPC version of Snow Leopard
> without impacting the performance of Intel systems. Most PPC
> systems would not get the benefit of all the new features, but
> not all Intel systems get those benefits either.
>
> The biggest gain for Apple in dropping PPC is from resources
> to test and support the old platforms.


But but but I thought my dual 2 gig G5 was a 64 bit machine ? ( I  
could be wrong ?)
It got dropped like a bad habit, before it even got its full  
performance ?
Not fair.